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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015
140th Year, No. 14
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Boardman
to allow
medical
marijuana
Pilot Rock, Umatilla ban
all marijuana businesses
East Oregonian
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marijuana bans and ordinances Tuesday
night and only one — Boardman —
voted to allow marijuana businesses of
any kind.
Pendleton
The Pendleton City Council staved
off a ban on marijuana sales for at least
one more meeting.
With Councilor Chuck Wood in the
midst of a month-long vacation, the
council voted 4-3 to ban both medical
and recreational marijuana sales, one
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the ordinance.
Ten attendees spoke against the ban
and four spoke for it, which matched the
number of councilors that voted for the
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64.5%
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35.5%
1,346 IN FAVOR
GAS TAX TANKS
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
A proposed gas tax in Pend-
leton failed Tuesday, according
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Umatilla County.
The result was 64.5 percent of
voters opposed and 35.5 percent in
favor. In city limits, 3,791 people
returned ballots.
The proposal would have
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gallon of gas sold in Pendleton for
a decade. The money raised would
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Election results*
Umatilla fi re bond
Passed (Yes 51%, No 49%)
Heppner fi re bond
Passed (Yes 76%, No 24%)
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The results were only slightly
better than the last time the city
sought a long-term gas tax in
2006, which 70 percent of voters
were against.
Councilor Al Plute, who led the
political action committee support
the gas tax, said it was a “pretty
rough vote.”
Despite it going down at the
ballot box, Plute said he still
thought a gas tax would be the
best way to raise money for streets
because part of it would be paid
by out-of-town drivers.
Resident Rex Morehouse had a
very different opinion, calling the
defeat a “victory for Pendleton.”
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in its opposition to the gas tax,
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eight-school tour
By SEAN HART
East Oregonian
A teenager who turned
her story of being bullied
into a song of hope took to
the stage Tuesday to inspire
local students.
Rachel Crow performed a
collection of songs including
her single “Mean Girls” at
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of an eight-school, three-day
miniature tour, followed by
an afternoon stop at Weston-
McEwen High School.
She is performing for free,
hoping to bring a positive
message against bullying.
“I feel like it’s a really
important message to get
across to people that you can
change it,” she said. “It’s just
as simple as me getting on
the stage and singing a few
songs and talking to the kids.
They really, I think, respect
people who tell them it’s not
OK (to bully). It’s not funny.
It’s not cool. It doesn’t make
you bigger. It just, in fact,
makes you smaller.”
Crow is no stranger to the
spotlight. At 13 she showed
talent, making it to the top
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Morehouse said he spent $69
to print out his own anti-gas tax
pamphlets and distribute them
door-to-door.
Noting that the eventual
$5 street utility fee will raise
$481,000 for road maintenance,
Morehouse said the council will
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budget to further fund pavement
preservation.
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that would establish the fee was
at Tuesday’s city council meeting.
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ation at the Nov. 17 meeting.
Schimmel
to moderate
conversation
with Obama
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
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voted to give Cutsforth-Gregory the
Golden Apple Award, which honors
the class’ favorite Mayo faculty
member.
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fellow to ever win this award,” said
medical student Maggie Cupit. “He is
just that good.”
Some of his teaching chops were
earned, not at medical school, but
while instructing math at his high
school alma mater — Pendleton High
School — in 2006. That year, the
24-year-old intended to substitute teach
in Pendleton while applying to medical
schools. That was the plan, anyway,
but as he and some friends prepared
to hike into the Sisters Wilderness one
late-August day, his cell phone buzzed.
Then-PHS principal Tom Lovell
A young member of the
Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation
will moderate a discussion on
Thursday between President
Obama and tribal youth.
J u d e
Schimmel,
a standout
basketball
player at
the Univer-
sity
of
Louisville,
author and
member of Schimmel
Generation
Indigenous, will meet with
Obama during a session
of the White House Tribal
Nations Conference in
Washington D.C.
“I’m excited and honored
to announce that I will
moderate a conversation
between President Obama
and Native youth about how
we can work together to help
more young people reach
their full potential,” she
posted on Instagram. “What
questions do you have for the
President?”
Schimmel is a visible
member of Generation
Indigenous, an organization
Obama launched last year
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visited Standing Rock Sioux
Indian Nation in North
Dakota. The goal of Gen-I
is to engage and improve
the lives of Native youth.
Schimmel was one of the
featured youth at the White
House Tribal Youth Gath-
ering at the White House in
July.
During
her
stellar
collegiate basketball career,
Schimmel won the NCAA
Elite 89 award for having the
highest grade-point average
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the 2013 NCAA basketball
championships. She grad-
uated in three years and is
earning her master’s degree
in sports administration at
Louisville. She signed with
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Singer Rachel Crow posses for a photo with the band The Johnsons and students attending a concert Tuesday
at Stanfi eld Secondary School.
vision competition in 2011.
She has been on Nickelodeon
shows, starred in the Disney
Channel movie “Invisible
Sister,” and voiced Carla in
the animated movie “Rio 2.”
Now, at 17, she is turning a
week of downtime between
projects into an opportunity
to help others feeling what
she once felt.
Crow said she was
frequently
bullied
in
school before she moved to
California. As the “bright,
cheery, out-of-this-world,
weird kid,” she said other
students enjoyed trying to
bring her down.
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thought maybe I really am
a really bad person, maybe
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Young Mayo doc’s enthusiasm contagious
Award-winning doctor
started as PHS math teacher
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Just the word “neurology” can seem
complicated and headache-inducing.
Dr. Jeremy Cutsforth-Gregory
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neurology students at the beginning of
the semester at Mayo Medical School.
He enjoys watching their anxiety
ebb away as the weeks go by and the
tumblers fall into place.
“Neurology (which deals with
disorders of the nervous system) is
very complex, but it’s also logical,”
Cutsforth-Gregory said. “You can see
the lights turn on.”
If Cutsforth-Gregory sounds like
a veteran teacher, think again. The
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Dr. Jeremy Cutsforth-Gregory, a
neurologist, teacher and fellow at
the Mayo Clinic, was amazed to
learn he had won the Golden Ap-
ple Award, something no other fel-
low has ever won.
Pendleton native graduated from
medical school six years ago and only
began teaching neurology as a fellow
last year.